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Quarter 1

In the first part of quarter 1, students read and study the novel The Things They Carried. After the novel we move on to Southern Gothic writing and the short stories of Flannery O'Conner and William Faulkner.

 

Quarter 2

Quarter 2 continues with American shorts stories by John Updike, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe and Washington Irving. We then move on to 1984 and the Orwellian dystopia.

 

 

Quarter 3

In Quarter 3, students study the Salem Witch Trials and Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. They "travel" the world through Google Maps and design a "bucket list" of places they are interested in visiting as well as beginning a study of eleventh grade vocabulary units.

 

Quarter 4

Finally, students finish the year reading Frank McCourt's bildungsroman Angela's Ashes. Students discuss the theme of "Coming of age" and Irish history.